Mrs Gandhi Arrested

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1932, Page 8

Mrs Gandhi Arrested

INDIAN SITUATION REMAINS CALM. APPEAL to" SOBER ELEMENTS British Official Wireless. Received Tuesday, 9.50 pan, RUGBY, Jan. in

News reached London this morning that, following her support of tho resumption of the no-tax campaign in Bardoll, Airs. Gandhi has been arrested. The nows from India indicates that the situation remains generally calm and without notable incident. Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay, addressing a conference of leading Indian and European business men to-day, emphasised that the Government did not intend to follow the example of Congress and endeavour by coercive measures to compel trade to follow in any particular channel. The ordinances were designed to protect trade from being hampered. The Government insisted on freedom for all to trade how and where they liked, and would extend the fullest protection against molestation. The Governor declared that tho Indian Government adhered to the terms of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s statement at the close of the Round Table Conference, and asked for the co-operation of the sober elements in the community with the Government, which was striving to prevent a bad legacy being left for tho future.

A Peshawar message states that throe days’ continuous rain has discouraged and dispirited the pieketers, and the hostile lashkar of the Fakir of AJimgar has dispersed, having received no encouragement from the loyal Mohmed Maliks. The conduct of the people in Khatak is now reported to be excellent. More Repressive Measures San Francisco Press Broadcast. BOMBAY, Jan. 11. The Government to-day promulgated a special ordinance forbidding all meetings of groups containing more than five persons. This latest emergency measure automatically outlaws every gathering of the Nationalists, who are defying British authority with their campaign of civil disobedience and non-co-operation.

The decree came after the boycott of British goods, declared by Mahatma Gandhi and the All-India National Congress, had succeeded in cutting business in Bombay to one-fourth its normal \volumc.